Aurora Photo Editing Software Review (Closed)
Meet Lights Crafts:
Light Crafts is a company that believes passionately in the power of digital photography. We believe everyone’s photos should look great, and that getting them to look that way should be simple.
Light Crafts knows that photo management — the process of importing, organizing, editing, storing and sharing, and should be intuitive and powerful.
Introducing Aurora:
Light Crafts just launched a very unique photo editing and management software called Aurora.
This software enables users in:
- Visual photo editing: Unique relight tool, straighten, adjust color strength and warmth, crop, zoom and adjust red-eye in a simple, intuitive and visual way.
- Organizing and viewing of photos: Import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites for easy viewing and retrieval.
- Sharing and publishing: Email, print, and connect directly to photo sharing, social networking and accounts from within Aurora, making it easy to share select photos online on sites like Flickr and Facebook.
- Online back-up: Store photos safely online, with an online back-up plan. Mom Approved!
Taking perfect pictures can be a daunting task, you always want the perfect result. It’s nice to have a quick fix for poor lighting and red eye.
I recently had the opportunity to try Aurora and was pleasantly surprised at its ease of use. The best editing options for me were the Red Eye remover and the Relighting option.
Red Eye: I often have issues with my boys’ having red eyes in pictures. Using Aurora, I selected a photo from my files (uploaded in Aurora), clicked on Edit, and then hit Red Eye. The Aurora program automatically detects the red eye in the picture and offers you a fixed image. It’s quick and easy!
Relighting: Unless you’re a professional, you rarely have perfect lighting of your little subject. Aurora offers a magical feature called Relight or Auto Relight. It essentially “turns on” the light in your photo. It’s like instant sunshine.
Mom Improvements:
Overall the software is easy to use and intelligent with its unique automatic fixes. I wish the program had the ability to add borders and text to further personalize pictures similar to other photo editing programs.
Buy It:
Aurora is available for purchase at the Lightcrafts store for $19.95 (regularly $39.95).
~Amber of Mama’s Miracles
GIVEAWAY INFO!
Here is your chance to win a copy of the Aurora Software! We are giving away 10 copies!
Ways to win:
-go to Lightcrafts and tell us one thing about the Aurora Software that you could really use
-extra entry- tweet tweet!
Giveaway will end June 16
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25 Comments
I have a lot of pictures that are too dark that I could use the relight for. I would like to see if it’s easier to fix red eye than some others.
I tweeted.
http://twitter.com/lovemy2doggies/status/2185844654
I could really use this for the publishing and sharing.
You can lighten dark photos…this I need because I have many photos that have this problem! Hopefully I’ll win so I can finally fix this! Thanks!
Red eye is a major problem in our house! My boys always look possessed!
tweet http://twitter.com/vlbsweeps/status/2157489646
Second entry: I subscribe to your email newsletter.
Thanks!
I like that you can use it to store photos too!
I like it it corrects a lot of different lighting problems including warmth. Having an easy way to correct red eye would be great also.
i really really like the pop-up image selector. I hate having to go back and forth editing/undoing when pix doesnt turn out like i think it would. being able to click on the desired improved image so you can see them all side by side is a pretty cool feature. it would save me a great deal on editing (and boy do i have editing! i’m looking at 70 pix right now from just 2 days worth of festival/museum visits- and its only the FIRST week of summer….SIGH)
thanks for bringing this great program to our attention
My favorite thing about Aurora is being able to email, print, and connect directly to my favorite photo sharing, social networking and accounts.
Tweeted ~ http://twitter.com/zoellner18/statuses/2028332252
I think I would love to be able to change some of my pictures into black and white and sepia. Lots to play around with and fun!
I love the online storage.
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/simplybeingmom/status/2021844526
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I like that you can adjust the coloring of the photos. I like to change some of my photos to black and white or sepia.
crystal_reagan at hotmail dot com
the relighting tool would be great!
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/strawberryredx2/status/2017464198
Crap! I commented on the wrong post! Sorry! That last comment was for the Little Miss Matched Contest.
For this on: I like that Aurora allows you to email, print, and connect directly to your favorite photo sharing, social networking and accounts from within Aurora.
I love the purple and green pajamas.
I went to their site and the thing I would love the most that I can use is the relighting tool. I have quite a few pictures that could be awesome with some more lighting!
Thanks!
Debbi
Tweeted ~ http://twitter.com/susanlanai/status/2011229468
I really need the visual editing because I am a junkie photographer!
I like the pop-up image selector. I think its really neat that you can chose you how your edited photos might look by clicking on the desired improved image. this way you can see them all side by side rather than saving multiple copies
I would love to have software that I can straighten, adjust color strength, crispness and warmth, crop, zoom and adjust red-eye in a simple, intuitive and visual way.